hi i am developing an ide for java,iam facing problem with getting column number(or char no at line being edited).can anyone help. also can anyone guide me how to handle syntax highlighting. Thanks Sourabhj

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hi everybody iam working in project in which the textfiles are continously changed ,or some data, is added to it by another application and i have to filter the textfiles and save it to another file and i have to process 56 files at a time and if all are processed continouslty cpu usage comes to 100% so i need to do something so that only the modified data which has addded to the file since last filteration done by my application so how can i do so can anyone guide me to do so thanks original text file format is like 20062511.095525,34444,566,7 and i have to filter it as 11/25/2006,95525,34444,34444,34444,34444,5666,7 pls guide me thanks sourabh